- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:31:15 +0200
- To: "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:26:54 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: >> This isn't what the spec is suggesting. The text I added to the spec >> which is what Henri is referring to would, if implemented, block _all_ >> new author-requested windows, including those from window.open(). > > I should note that while Gecko has a preference that allows this, > actually _using_ it breaks a number of sites, including a number of > reasonably legitimate use cases. There's no way it can become the > default setting given the state of the web, in my opinion. > > So I'm not sure what the point is of "encouraging" UAs to do something > that they just can't do while staying reasonably compatible with the web. Ian reverted that change later on based on similar feedback: http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=1471&to=1472 -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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